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The Republican president arrived in Italy fresh off delivering an unprecedented, personal rebuke to North Atlantic Treaty Organisation, traveling to its gleaming new Brussels headquarters to lecture its leaders to their faces on the need for them to spend more on defense.

President Trump and President Abbas agreed to continue their discussions on the issue of payments to Palestinian prisoners and the need to improve the Palestinian economy. Jerusalem is claimed by Palestinians for the future state they want to build, and isn't recognized internationally as Israel's capital. I will call them, from now on, losers, because that's what they are: "losers".

The team chose to communicate with Moscow through more official channels. Mr. Kushner met Russian Ambassador Sergey Kislyak and with Russian banker Sergey Gorkov, chairman of Vnesheconombank, a Russian state institution that has been under USA sanctions since July 2014.

Mrs Merkel said that while Germany and Europe would try to remain on good terms with the USA and Britain, "we have to fight for our own destiny". The relationship between Berlin and new French President Emmanuel Macron had to be a priority, Mrs Merkel said.

In his address to the Arab Islamic American Summit in Riyadh , before more than 50 regional leaders, Trump also accused Iran of fueling "the fires of sectarian conflict and terror" and called for its worldwide isolation. "It is a government that speaks openly of mass murder, vowing the destruction of Israel, death to America, and ruin for many leaders and nations in this room", he added.

Still, the trip offered the clearest picture to date of how Trump plans to put his imprint on America's relationship with the world. They did not elaborate. Only five members now meet the target, but the other nations are committed to the goal by 2024. Trump is the only world leader at the G-7 who has called climate change " a hoax ".